I have a i430hx chipset motherboard The bios id string is 2A59FS50C-00
The motherboard is not recognising harddisks higherthan 20gb I need help
to upgrade harddisk to 80gb Please help
Please post your full Bios-ID and not only parts of it.
S5 in your Bios-ID points to Holco. Holco was either taken over by Shuttle/Spacewalker or was renamed into Shuttle/Spacewalker. Your board may be a Shuttle HOT-553 with a very early Bios.
check the mainboard. there should be a product number starting with D followed by three or four digits. i guess it's an old Scenic Pro x5..
oh, and btw. i doubt that there's a bios that supports such large HDDs. so if you're using something else than Linux (Windows 2k/XP wouldn't be such a good idea on a socket 7 mainboard) you should get a smaller HDD. or just waste the extra space.
If you email me include [WIMSBIOS] in the subject.
you _could_ patch anything. the problem on the SNI bioses is: they are custom made phoenix bioses. so none of the standard patches applies. it would be a totally custom patch and to be honest: i wouldn't (want to) do it.
so, if you're going to use an old old old OS that relies on what the bios says there are - like i already wrote - two (2) options:
- waste the extra space on the shiny new drive
- get a smaller used drive
or if you want to use the full capacity of the drive with your current mainboard: use Linux.
If you email me include [WIMSBIOS] in the subject.
Do you only have the board or do you still have the original computer it was installed in ?
Was it in a desktop PC, Server, industrial board ? Please give as much details as you have, if it's from a Siemens or Fujitsu-Siemens system then they might at least have some information.
Bios received, I'll try to patch it later today. As it's from 11/98 patching might work.
Do you still not know where the board originally came from ? Siemens, Siemens-Nixdorf and Fujitsu-Siemens usually have a good support hosting lots of old files, they may even have updates for your old board.
Bios patched and sent. Please report back your finding and remember you use it at your own risk.
To find info or support from Siemens you need to know where it was originally attached. Server, notebook or desktop computers usually have a model series and a model number number and should be all listed at the link given above. I don't know if they list all computer/boards or if they only have the computer division of Siemens, Siemens-Nixdorf and Fujitsu-Siemens.